Magmatic lithospheric heating and weakening during continental rifting: A simple scaling law, a 2-D thermomechanical rifting model and the East African Rift System

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Schmeling, Harro ^a   Wallner, Herbert ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

continental breakup; lithospheric extension; magmatism; melting; rift zone

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEATING; KINEMATICS; MELTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; DEPTH RANGE; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EXTENSION MODELS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; HEAT-UP; HEATING EFFECT; KINEMATIC MODEL; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; LITHOSPHERIC HEATING; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAGMATISMS; MELT PRODUCTION; MULTICOMPONENTS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RIFT ZONES; SQUARE ROOTS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMO-MECHANICAL;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL THINNING; EMPLACEMENT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MELTING; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; THERMOMECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AFAR; EAST AFRICAN RIFT;

EID: 84864643926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004178     Document Type: Article

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